Books & DVDs

With a clear, easy-to-use format, over 200 illustrations from renowned artist Dave Hall, and encyclopedic coverage of almost everything that's important to know about fresh and saltwater fly fishing, this book will help beginners and experts alike catch more fish at home and abroad.

Softcover: 8.25" x 5.5" x 0.5"

• Features 20 favorite custom flies
• Learn how to fine-tune your own flies
• Covers a wide variety of tying materials
• Hardcover 224 pages, 8.5 x 0.63 x 11 inches

Charlie Craven's Basic Fly Tying is a modern course in fly tying fundamentals covering the essential tools, materials, and techniques to tie a wide range of popular flies. With 1,000 photos, Craven covers cutting-edge techniques for the more tried and true classics such as the Royal Wulff, Adams, and Hare's Ear, and shared innovative approaches to current patterns such as the Brassie, RS2, and Copper John.

The story of and instructions to tie the popular and successful Clouser Deep Minnow and its variations, including Purple Darter, Clouser Crayfish, EZ Popper, Rattle Clouser, Bright Sides Minnow, and more, told by the originator himself. Clouser presents recipes for his successful patterns for baitfish, subsurface foods, and surface flies with detailed explanations and full-color step-by-step photos.

• Hardcover 184 pages, 8.37x0.14x11.14 Inches

As fly fishing for trout becomes an ever more popular outdoor pursuit in North America, many enthusiasts are fueling their passion by learning to tie their own flies. This complete creative process, from concept to finished pattern, is lavishly represented here in hundreds of close-up, color photographs, demonstrating the beautiful feathers, tinsels, and other materials that comprise trout flies and the step-by-step methods used to assemble them.

Hardcover 157 pages, 8.5 x 0.72 x 11 inches

Lifelong fisherman though he is, Gierach can write with self-deprecating humor about his own fishing misadventures, confessing that despite all his experience, he is still capable of blowing a strike by a fish “in the usual amateur way.” “Arguably the best fishing writer working” (The Wall Street Journal), Gierach offers witty, trenchant observations not just about fly-fishing itself but also about how one’s love of fly-fishing shapes the world that we choose to make for ourselves.

• 240 Pages Softcover
• 5.5"x0.7"x8.38"
• 6.8oz

From author Jerry Darkes this is a collection patterns, and their histories, for Trout, Steelhead, Salmon, Smallmouth, Muskie, and more.

More than 600 patterns and recepies cover the historically important patterns from well-know tiers such as Schwibert and George Griffith, and Swisher and Richards, as well as flies that are on the cutting edge from tiers such as Kevin Feenstra, Walt Grau, John Kluesing, Rick Kustich, Jeff Liskay, Dave Pinczkowksi, Ray Schmidt, Greg Senyo, and Matt Supinski.

Includes Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, Canada.

Hardcover: 11.25" x 8.75" x 1"

Trout eat a large variety of food items and diets, and feeding behaviors change over timeThe more you understand about the fish and their ecosystem, the better skilled you will be at determining what fish are eating. You can learn to adapt your fishing strategies to trout's routines.

Hardcover, 208 pages

6 x 0.88 x 9 inches

This comprehensive guide to those parts of the natural world that impact trout, trout food and forage, and fly fishing provides valuable insight into influential factors including:

• barometric pressure
• precipitation
• air and water temperature
• wind, sunlight, and cloud cover
• moon phase
• water levels
• pH
• dissolved oxygen levels
• specific conductance 

Special attention is given to strategies and tactics anglers should employ when specific conditions are predominate and the reader is left with a greater awareness of how success on the water is impacted by these often overlooked elements of the natural world.

Softcover 164 pages, 9" x 6" x 0.5"

In the twelve years since his landmark book Pop Fleyes, Bob Popovics has continued to develop new fly patterns and improve old favorites. His new book includes 36 step-by-step tying and technique tutorials, over 12 new patterns, and numerous variations for every situation, plus contributions from a new generation of fly tiers who have been influenced by his signature style.

Hardcover 270 pages, 8.5 x 0.75 x 11 inches

An authoritative reference to imitating the important trout food forms in rivers and streams of the West. Leeson and Schollmeyer team up to pair incredible photos with descriptions of the insect and solid information on the hatch, life cycle, fly patterns, and step-by-step tying instructions.

• 150 patterns to match the super hatches of the American West
• 1,356 photographs 

Hardcover 328 pages, 8.5 x 1 x 11 inches

Tying Tactics for Today's Trout

As more and more anglers fish the river, new innovative tying strategies are needed. 

• 54 Styles and 110 patterns for mayflies, caddis, stones, and baitfish
• Insightful information on the trout's perception and behavior
• Hints on weighting flies, building bodies, and more

The Eastern United States is wrought with tailwater fisheries that can produce monster trout, but anglers need the wheres, whens and hows in order to capitalize. In the newest Flyfisher's Guide, Tom Gilmore gives you everything you need to know to hook into the East's trophy tailwater trout. Gilmore gives you everything you need to know, along with spectacular full-color photography. Regulations, seasons, fish, river characteristics, expert insights, recommended gear, hub-city information, history, and complete directions are listed for every river. 

Paperback 300 pages, 8.25 x 0.75 x 11 inches

In this book, from one of the most creative and visionary minds in fly tying and fly fishing, author Blane Chocklett shares his tips and techniques for getting maximum movement out of these flies, both at the vise and on the water. In addition to covering popular patterns such as the Finesse Changer and Feather Game Changer, Chocklett traces the evolution of his search for the ultimate pattern, and takes readers along his journey of discovery, by beginning with his Gummy Minnow and ending the book with perhaps the most effective fly ever designed for apex predators, the Hybrid Changer.

• Step-by-step tying instructions for 20 flies
• Chapter covering hooks, shanks, brushes, and other critical materials
• Fishing techniques, including tips on retrieves and casting large flies
• Close-ups of Chocklett’s favorite patterns
• Detailed information on building brushes

From the Gummy Minnow to the Game Changer, fly tyer and professional guide Blane Chocklett has been at the fore of progressive fly design and fishing tactics for species ranging from trout to musky for over twenty years. He is an advisor for many top fly fishing and fly tying companies in the industry including Flymen Fishing Company, Temple Fork Outfitters, Yeti Coolers, Costa del Mar Sunglasses, Scientific Anglers, Patagonia, Renzetti, Sightline Provisions, Hareline, and Adipose Boatworks, and he is southeast regional editor for Fly Fisherman magazine.

Essential Techniques for Fly Fishing the Tributarties

• 86 Essential flies for Great Lakes species
• Photo sequences of casting and fishing techniques
• Detailed information on the major fisheries
• Tackle and techniques for guaranteed success
• Written by Karl Weixlmann
• Forward by Matt Supinski
• Softcover 9" x 7.25" x 0.5"

Fishing success comes from making wise observations on stream and acting on them right away. In Handbook of Hatches, Hughes teaches how to match the hatch and not worry about identifying the insect until later, if at all, and to fish better, focus on shape, size, and color to choose the best fly for the situation.

Paperback, 288 pages

5.5 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches

Madness, obsession, and the hunt for the world-record tarpon

From the bestselling author Monte Burke comes the thrilling, untold story of the quest for the world-record tarpon on a fly rod, a tale that reveals as much about Man as it does the fish.

In Lords of the Fly, Monte Burke, an obsessed tarpon fly angler himself, delves into this seminal movement and the popularity of the amazing tarpon, a fifty-million year old species that can live to eighty years old and grow to three hundred pounds. This massive, leaping bullet train of a fish, when hooked in shallow water, produces "immediate unreality," as the late poet and tarpon obsessive, Richard Brautigan once described it. 

Hardcover: 9.25" x 6.5" x 1"

Patterns & Techniques for Great Lakes Steelhead and Lake Run Browns

From Kevin Feenstra, an essential reference for anglers who fish the many tributaries flowing into the Great Lakes- and for any angler seeking to better understand how to best fool their quarry.

Hardcover: 11.25" X 8.75" X 0.75"

Whether angler, naturalist, birder, or simply a person yearning to learn more about rivers, May the Rivers Never Sleep is a unique book that bridges observation, science, conservation, and the influence of family. As described by Bill and John McMillan, father and son, rivers are one of those places were revelations can occur and lives can be changed. Though initially drawn to rivers and salmon through angling, the family gradually transitioned to a deeper learning about the lives of rivers through snorkeling. Following in the footsteps of renowned Canadian author and conservationist Roderick Haig-Brown, the McMillan's river calendar is founded in a series of monthly essays, each of which are further described through photographs of rivers, animals, birds, and insects, including several stunning underwater images of the salmon's life as never seen before. 

Hardcover 152 pages, 9.25 x 0.75 x 12.5 inches